Pulitzer Prize - History
The Pulitzer Prize for History / 2009 - 1917
The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States. Many history books have also been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
2009: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
2008: What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe
2007: The Race Beat by Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff
2006: Polio: An American Story by David M. Oshinsky
2005: Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
2004: A Nation Under Our Feet by Steven Hahn
2003: An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
2002: The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand
2001: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
2000: Freedom From Fear: Am. people…Depression and War by David M. Kennedy
1999: Gotham: New York City to 1898 by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace
1998: Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial… by Edward J. Larson
1997: Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in…the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove
1996: William Cooper's Town:… the Early Am. Republic by Alan Taylor
1995: No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt by Doris Kearns Goodwin
1994: no award given
1993: The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
1992: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties by Mark E. Neely, Jr.
1991: A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
1990: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow
1989: Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
1989: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
1988: The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 by Robert V. Bruce
1987: Voyagers to the West… the Peopling of America… by Bernard Bailyn
1986: The Heavens and the Earth:…History of the Space Age by Walter A. McDougall
1985: Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
1984: no award given
1983: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
1982: Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward
1981: American Education:… 1783-1876 by Lawrence A. Cremin
1980: Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
1979: The Dred Scott Case:…American Law and Politics by Don E. Fehrenbacher
1978: The Visible Hand by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
1977: The Impending Crisis, 1841-1867 by David M. Potter
1976: Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1975: Jefferson and His Time by Dumas Malone
1974: The Americans: The Democratic Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin
1973: People of Paradox:… the Origins of Am. Civilization by Michael Kammen
1972: Neither Black Nor White by Carl N. Degler
1971: Roosevelt: The Soldier Of Freedom by James MacGregor Burns
1970: Present At The Creation: My Years In The State Department by Dean Acheson
1969: Origins of the Fifth Amendment by Leonard W. Levy
1968: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1967: Exploration and Empire:… by William H. Goetzmann
1966: The Life of the Mind in America by Perry Miller
1965: The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger
1964: Puritan Village:… a New England Town by Sumner Chilton Powell
1963: Washington, Village and Capital, 1800-1878 by Constance McLaughlin Green
1962: The Triumphant Empire:… the West, 1763-1766 by Lawrence H. Gipson
1961: Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference by Herbert Feis
1960: In the Days of McKinley by Margaret Leech
1959: The Republican Era: 1869-1901 by Leonard D. White and Jean Schneider
1958: Banks and Politics in America by Bray Hammond
1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-Am. Relations, 1917-1920 by George F. Kennan
1956: The Age of Reform by Richard Hofstadter
1955: Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History by Paul Horgan
1954: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
1953: The Era of Good Feelings by George Dangerfield
1952: The Uprooted by Oscar Handlin
1951: The Old Northwest, Pioneer Period 1815-1840 by R. Carlyle Buley
1950: Art and Life in America by Oliver W. Larkin
1949: The Disruption of American Democracy by Roy Franklin Nichols
1948: Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto
1947: Scientists Against Time by James Phinney Baxter III
1946: The Age of Jackson by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
1945: Unfinished Business by Stephen Bonsal
1944: The Growth of American Thought by Merle Curti
1943: Paul Revere and the World He Lived In by Esther Forbes
1942: Reveille in Washington, 1860-1865 by Margaret Leech
1941: The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860 by Marcus Lee Hansen
1940: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
1939: A History of American Magazines by Frank Luther Mott
1938: The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900 by Paul Herman Buck
1937: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 by Van Wyck Brooks
1936: A Constitutional History of the United States by Andrew C. McLaughlin
1935: The Colonial Period of American History by Charles McLean Andrews
1934: The People's Choice by Herbert Agar
1933: The Significance of Sections in American History by Frederick J. Turner
1932: My Experiences in the World War by John J. Pershing
1931: The Coming of the War, 1914 by Bernadotte E. Schmitt
1930: The War of Independence by Claude H. Van Tyne
1929: The Org. and Admin. of the Union Army, 1861-1865 by Fred Albert Shannon
1928: Main Currents in American Thought by Vernon Louis Parrington
1927: Pinckney's Treaty by Samuel Flagg Bemis
1926: A History of the United States by Edward Channing
1925: History of the American Frontier by Frederic L. Paxson
1924: The American Revolution: A Const. Interpretation by Charles Howard McIlwain
1923: The Supreme Court in United States History by Charles Warren
1922: The Founding of New England by James Truslow Adams
1921: The Victory at Sea by William Sowden Sims and Burton J. Hendrick
1920: The War with Mexico by Justin H. Smith
1919: no award given
1918: A History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 by James Ford Rhodes
1917: With Americans of Past and Present Days by Jean Jules Jusserand
